Overshoe-retainer.



P. K. YOUNG. OVBRSHOE RETAINER. urmonmn FILED JAN. 21. 1910,

Patented Aug. 23, 910.

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PHILIP K. YOUNG, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

OVERSHOE-RETAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 23, 1910.

Application filed January 21, 1910. Serial No. 539,387.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP K. YonNG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Overshoe-Reta1ners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in overshoe retainers, and has for its object to provide an article or device which may be connected or detached from the shoe or overshoe, and used to prevent displacement of the overshoe when the wearer is walking in adhesive soil, and which will be reliable and convenient in use and will be economical in manufacture.

The invention consists of the novel combination and arrangement of parts as de scribed herein and claimed, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, where- 1n Figure 1 is broken away, side view of a shoe and overshoe, with my newly invented retainer secured thereon. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view on the irregular line a a of Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 1 are enlarged views showing, respectively, the edge and inner side of the hook-strip, the strap employed being also shown. Fig. 5 is a view of the outer side of the hook-strip. Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the socket-member.

Referring now to the drawing for a more particular description, numeral 1 indicates a shoe, and 2 the overshoe seated thereon, and I provide the'retainer 8 which may be readily connected with or disconnected from the shoe or overshoe, and consisting in part of a flexible member or holding-strand 4, a leather strap being preferred for this purpose.

To provide means for removably securing the strap to the overshoe, said strap may have secured upon one of its ends the engaging-member or lug 5, and upon the overshoe, near the upper edge of its heel portion, may be secured the socket or receivingmember 6, the latter being formed as a disk 7 having prongs 8 and an aperture 9. After the prongs have been passed through the wall of the overshoe they may be fastened to said .wall by bending them to the position shown in Fig. 2, and the strap may be removably secured to the overshoe by seating the head or lug 5 in aperture 9.

I provide the hook-strip 10, this being an integral, metallic strip or bar, bent in opposite directions, transversely, at its terminals to provide atone end a hook, loop or holding-arm 11 adapted to engage the upper edge of the wall of the shoe, above the heel, the opposite end of the strip providing a contact-plate, bearing-surface or lug 12 for the frictional engagement of the strap; and at 13 is indicated a striding piece, clampingmember or slidable clasp.

In operation, the hook may be placed over the upper edge of the shoe wall, and when moved downwardly it will be reliably secured. The body portion of the strip is bent at 14, intermediate hook 11 and lug 12, in a direction of hook 11 at a point adjacent to and near the free end of the hook; and near the free end of the hook, at 15, the materialis preferably curved in a direction of curvature 1 1, and when the hook is not seated upon the wall of the shoe, curved portions 14 and 15 are practically in contact, and on account of the resiliency of the material, these curved parts cooperate as a compressionmem'ber to reliably embrace the wall and thereby to secure the metallic strip or bar upon the shoe, and in practice, when the overshoes have been removed the hook-strips may remain upon the shoes.

Another object in the employment of the curvature 14, is to provide a form for the metallic strip 10 which will conform to the shape of the ankle or heel-portion of the shoe, which generally curves downwardly and outwardly.

It will be understood that clamping-member 13, normally, may slide freely upon the body of the bar or strip 10 between hook 11 and the contact-plate 12. When forming strip 10 the material is bent in a manner to prevent the clampingmember from passing over plate 12, the walls of the plate and body of the strip being so bent that they form an outwardly divergent terminal 16 of greater extentor thickness than the aperture of said member, and in practice, the strap or flexible member is passed upwardly through the clamping-member, the body of the strap being seated upon the outwardly divergent plate 12, and after the clamping-member or striding piece has been moved downwardly, plate 12 operates as a wedge, and the overshoe will be reliably held, the operation being that a strain upon that part of the strap upon which the overshoe is secured, will result in an increased compression of the strap between the contact-plate and clamping-member. The overshoe may be conveniently released from the shoe by manually sliding the clamping-member upwardly upon the body portion of the hook strip.

Having fully described the parts and their uses, a further explanation of operation is not needed.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

1. In a retaining device for the purpose described, the combination with an overshoe provided with a socket-member, of a metallic strip bent transversely at its ends to form, respectively, a terminal hook for engaging the wall of the shoe, and an outwardly-divergent, terminal contact-plate; a stridingpiece seated upon said strip; a flexible member adapted to traverse the striding-piece and have a seating upon the contact-plate, said flexible member being provided with a lug for engagement with said socket-member; said striding-piece being slidable upon said strip to engage that part of the flexiblemember disposed between the contact-plate and said striding-piece.

2. A retaining device for overshoes, comprising a metallic strip bent transversely at one of its ends to form a hook for engaging the wall of the shoe, its opposite end being bent transversely to form an outwardly divergent, terminal contact-plate, and formed with a transverse curvature intermediate said hook and said contact-plate; a striding piece upon said strip; a flexible member removably secured upon the overshoe and adapted to traverse said striding piece and to have a seating upon the contact-plate; said striding piece adapted tohave a sliding movement upon said metallic strip to circumscribe a part of said contact-plate and said flexible member.

3. A retainer for overshoes comprising a resilient, metallic bar having one of its ends returned to form a terminal holding-arm the returned part thereof being bent in a direction of and to form a curved portion for a normal seating upon the body portion of said bar, the opposite end of said bar being bent to form a terminal, outwardly-divergent contact-plate, and bent intermediate said holding-arm and contact-plate in a direction opposed to the terminal holdingarm; said holding-arm adapted to be disposed to overhang the shoe wall, the curved portion of the returned part of said arm embracing said wall; a clamping-member upon said bar; a holding-strand adapted to have a seating upon the contact-plate and to traverse the clamping-member, and to have a mounting of one of its terminals upon the overshoe, said clamping-member being slidable upon said bar and adapted to engage the holding-strand between the contact-plate and said clamping-member.

at. In devices for the purpose described, the combination with an overshoe, having an engaging-member thereon, ,of a metallicstrip provided with a terminal hook for engaging the wall of the shoe, its opposite end being provided with a lug; a striding piece seated upon said strip; a flexible strap adapted to traverse the striding piece and to have a seating upon the lug of said strip, and provided with an engaging member adapted to register with the engaging-member of the overshoe; said striding piece adapted to have a movement to circumscribe said lug and to make contact with that part of the flexible strap adjacent to said lug.

In testimony whereof I have aifixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PHILIP K. YOUNG. Witnesses:

HIRAM A. STUReEs, Gno. S. GrBsoN. 

